Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 21:24:17 -0700 From: "David Schultz" <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Mouse wheel in XFree86 4.0.3 Message-ID: <002201c0d909$151e1540$0100a8c0@mshome.net>
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After trying numerous tricks, I have been unable to get my PS/2 Intellimouse scroll wheel to work under XFree86 4.0.3 and FreeBSD 4.3R. The mouse had worked previously under FreeBSD 4.1S with XFree86 4.0.1, but I do not recall what settings I used--- nothing too bizarre. (I will not describe the catastrophic set of events by which the old configuration file and the rest of the filesystem was destroyed.) I am using moused because I work in console mode a lot and I would like to be able to cut and paste. On the other hand, I would also like to be able to use the scroll wheel in, say, Netscape. Imwheel is installed from the ports collection, and I use the moused_flags="-z 4" option in /etc/rc.conf. Downgrading X to a version that works isn't really an option because earlier versions had a bug that created many artifacts on the display with my particular graphics adapter. Some Port / Protocol combinations I've tried in /etc/X11/XF86Config: /dev/sysmouse: sysmouse: The mouse is extremely sluggish and the system responds to click events with a probability of about 25%. Increasing the resolution with the appropriate moused flag does not help. /dev/sysmouse:MouseSystems: The mouse works, but no wheel support /dev/sysmouse:auto: Again, the mouse works, but no wheel support. /dev/sysmouse:(just about anything else): The mouse either can't be initialized, or goes haywire whenever I move it in X. /dev/psm0:(anything): The port can't be opened because moused has grabbed it, and X won't start. Killing moused fixes this, and the wheel works with the MouseSystems protocol, but then I can't use the mouse when I return to console mode! I could always log out, log in as root, restart moused, and log back in as myself every time, but I'd rather make it work both ways. I have also played with settings in moused and imwheel a bit, to no avail. Please let me know even if you only have some random suggestions that I haven't tried yet. Thanks in advance. Regards, David Schultz -- Think different... but write good. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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